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Nayfen_94

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How do I make these Big Room stabs?
« on: May 31, 2016, 09:38:03 pm »
In the drops of both tracks:
Maestro Harrell & Maurice West - Poseidon: https://youtu.be/vbjoupCWk_M?t=1m3s
W&W & MOTi - Spack Jarrow: https://youtu.be/tdpvUn5BDaI?t=1m34s

I've been trying to create those sounds for a while now and my attempts are nowhere near as close. I've tried using some brass sounds to recreate them but they don't sound as powerful.
Any tips?

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Re: How do I make these Big Room stabs?
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2016, 10:38:54 pm »
Something to remember about this big room/main room electro house style is the importance of layering. There are three main layers in your typical  THREE TWO ONE JUMP drop lead:

1. Supersaw layer of varying degrees of detuned-ness.

2. A clean saw wave to add clarity and punch, or another supersaw of different detunedness and/or in a different octave.

3. White noise or bright noise.

From there, mess with reverb, OTT compression, distortion/saturation, and see what you can get. If you can't get it in one patch, don't worry - most of these guys are layering more than one synth on top of each other. If you're really stuck, just flick through lead presets until you find ones that fit these three characteristics (that's probably how a lot of these guys work), play them on top of one another, then see what each one does to contribute to the overall sound!

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Re: How do I make these Big Room stabs?
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2016, 11:39:07 pm »
Thanks for replying! I'm glad you described how the main leads could be made because I was actually going to make another post about those, however the sound I was originally talking about was the loud horn sound that's present in both tracks I posted. I'm really not sure what to call them so I called them stabs lol  :P
Sorry for any confusion.

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Re: How do I make these Big Room stabs?
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2016, 12:30:00 am »
its down to the sound design technique of the producer, you cant always get sound 100% close to it, but you can get close

if you look at the MainStage stuff, W&W use a lot of sylenth and massive, to get their dutch sounds
remmeber sylenth is a dutch analogue synth and massive is Wavetable

its best you study synthesis and sound design, so you can train your ears when you hear a sound, you know the workings of it and can replicate it in a way, the horn was from sylenth and saw from massive
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Re: How do I make these Big Room stabs?
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2016, 02:48:45 am »
Oh, Sorry about that. Though the way you get there is often similar - try a low pass envelope on a supersaw that swells up, and layer that with some brass samples.